TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyers,Erin A.
TI  - Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity 
SN  - 9780813599465
AV  - PN1992.8.R43 M49 2020
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - United States
KW  - Reality television programs
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Television personalities
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Us Weekly, celebrity, reality television, reality star, reality television celebrity, media, magazines, celebrity gossip, 2000s, ordinariness, fame, twenty-first century celebrity, gossip narratives
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Unpacking the Celebrity Image --; 2. The Labor of Ordinariness: Famous for Being Yourself --; 3. Celebrity Lifestyle Labor: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary --; 4. Lauren Conrad: Us Weekly and the Extraordinarily Ordinary Celebrity --; Conclusion: The Future of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Celebrity --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly’s construction of the “extraordinarily ordinary” celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in “just being yourself” while simultaneously defining what the “right” sort of self is in contemporary culture
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813599465
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813599465
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ER  -